Calculating Probabilities in C++

[jhudson1]

Homework Statement

Working on a program that will calculate the results of a shootout between 3 people, each of whom have a different level of accuracy (one hits his mark 1/3 of the time, one hits his mark 1/2 of the time, one hits his mark 1/1 of the time).

Homework Equations

What's a way to represent 1/3 as a float/double so that I can make my calculations as accurate possible? I'm sure there are multiple ways, but I'm curious what kind of options I have available to me.

Does anyone have some links to relevant reading material? Or some source code that addresses a similar problem that I might examine?

Anything welcome.

P.S. Is there any way to sage a post on the forum? i.e. respond but not bump the thread?

 

[MisterX]

like this

double d = 1.0/3;

or

double d = 1/3.0;

or

double d = 1/3.;

or

double d = static_cast<double>(1)/3;

etc.

but not

double d = 1/3;

because the "1/3" part would evaluate to an integer with value zero

The important thing to know is that at least one of the operands (numerator or denominator) should be a floating point type.

 

[jhudson1]

Great. Thank you!